Dad Reaches Out After Child's Death
Writes Touching Letter on Safety After Daughter Drowned

(July 31) -- Iysha Kruyer, 2, drowned Wednesday night while swimming with her sister in the family pool in Henderson, Nev. Her father, Paul Kruyer, reached out amid his family's grief to remind other parents to keep a vigilant eye on their children.
"Every summer a story about a child drowning would inevitably be aired on the evening news. Every time, it would bring tears to my eyes & my heart would go out to 'that poor unfortunate family.' I never believed it would happen to us," Kruyer wrote in a touching letter to KTNV Action News.



"We watch our children too closely... until the one time you don't," Kruyer said in his note.
Kuyer and his wife, Annalee, are all too familiar with keeping an eye on children: They have five others. The couple work in a dental practice together, he as the office manager. Just days before the drowning, the station had interviewed Annalee Kruyer about donating her dental services to a woman in need.
The heart-wrenching letter reveals the conflicted feelings of a parent who has so suddenly lost a child. Though Kruyer recalled the firm rules he had in place for his children and the pool, he said he cannot escape the intense guilt he feels over his daughter's death.
"If I had just gotten home earlier, if I had warned the kids more, if we had moved already, if I had kept Iysha at the office one more year SHE would still be alive," Kruyer wrote.
But in spite of the suffering Kruyer and his family are going through, his message is for other families. "If one less child drowns because THEIR family has felt our grief and become just that much more vigilant... then witnessing our sorrow will be worth the hours, days and future years of heartache," he wrote.
For more on the story and to read Paul Kruyer's letter, read the report from KTNV Action News.
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